getting back to the basics
ohsnap! i've given up & given in to getting a blogspot. ^___^
but i think i will update xanga at the same time as blogspot. cause xanga is still <3.
but blogspot is nifty because i can keep track of all these blogs better o_O
anyway, here is my latest xanga post:
we're not called to set things 'right' in the world.
"therefore go and make disciples of all nations..."
"why not take that same amount of time and instead of impacting only one person, impact 100 people in that same amount of time? why not produce more 'fruit' if you can?"
because if God calls me to serve/impact/witness to just one person. i'm better off doing that one thing God has called me to do really well, than witnessing to 100 people.
"really ?? really????"
if we're not careful, we'll start having the mentality of the world that states that the more people we impact, the better. the more things we do, the better. the greater the impact we have,the better. not that these aren't good. but there is a difference between doing what we think will further the kingdom of God the most and what God actually calls us to do.
"Why this waste of a perfume? It could have been sold for more than a year's wages and the money given to the poor." And they rebuked her harshly.
"Leave her alone," said Jesus. "Why are you bothering me? She has done a beautiful thing to me. The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me. ... I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her."
All she did, all she poured out was on Jesus himself. one person. &Jesus praises her for it. not because she gave to the poor, not because she led a small group and brought hundreds to Christ. but because she came to Jesus herself, and poured out her treasures, her best, her life on Jesus himself. she gave her all to Him. nothing spent on just Jesus is wasted.
today's utmost for his highest:
. . . do you love Me? . . . Tend My sheep —John 21:16
Jesus did not say to make converts to your way of thinking, but He said to look after His sheep, to see that they get nourished in the knowledge of Him. We consider what we do in the way of Christian work as service, yet Jesus Christ calls service to be what we are to Him, not what we do for Him. Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.
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Today we have substituted doctrinal belief for personal belief, and that is why so many people are devoted to causes and so few are devoted to Jesus Christ. People do not really want to be devoted to Jesus, but only to the cause He started. Jesus Christ is deeply offensive to the educated minds of today, to those who only want Him to be their Friend, and who are unwilling to accept Him in any other way. Our Lord’s primary obedience was to the will of His Father, not to the needs of people— the saving of people was the natural outcome of His obedience to the Father. If I am devoted solely to the cause of humanity, I will soon be exhausted and come to the point where my love will waver and stumble. But if I love Jesus Christ personally and passionately, I can serve humanity, even though people may treat me like a "doormat." The secret of a disciple’s life is devotion to Jesus Christ, and the characteristic of that life is its seeming insignificance and its meekness. Yet it is like a grain of wheat that "falls into the ground and dies"— it will spring up and change the entire landscape ( John 12:24 ).
And He speaks. And I listen.
but i think i will update xanga at the same time as blogspot. cause xanga is still <3.
but blogspot is nifty because i can keep track of all these blogs better o_O
anyway, here is my latest xanga post:
we're not called to set things 'right' in the world.
"therefore go and make disciples of all nations..."
"why not take that same amount of time and instead of impacting only one person, impact 100 people in that same amount of time? why not produce more 'fruit' if you can?"
because if God calls me to serve/impact/witness to just one person. i'm better off doing that one thing God has called me to do really well, than witnessing to 100 people.
"really ?? really????"
if we're not careful, we'll start having the mentality of the world that states that the more people we impact, the better. the more things we do, the better. the greater the impact we have,the better. not that these aren't good. but there is a difference between doing what we think will further the kingdom of God the most and what God actually calls us to do.
"Why this waste of a perfume? It could have been sold for more than a year's wages and the money given to the poor." And they rebuked her harshly.
"Leave her alone," said Jesus. "Why are you bothering me? She has done a beautiful thing to me. The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me. ... I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her."
All she did, all she poured out was on Jesus himself. one person. &Jesus praises her for it. not because she gave to the poor, not because she led a small group and brought hundreds to Christ. but because she came to Jesus herself, and poured out her treasures, her best, her life on Jesus himself. she gave her all to Him. nothing spent on just Jesus is wasted.
today's utmost for his highest:
. . . do you love Me? . . . Tend My sheep —John 21:16
Jesus did not say to make converts to your way of thinking, but He said to look after His sheep, to see that they get nourished in the knowledge of Him. We consider what we do in the way of Christian work as service, yet Jesus Christ calls service to be what we are to Him, not what we do for Him. Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.
...
Today we have substituted doctrinal belief for personal belief, and that is why so many people are devoted to causes and so few are devoted to Jesus Christ. People do not really want to be devoted to Jesus, but only to the cause He started. Jesus Christ is deeply offensive to the educated minds of today, to those who only want Him to be their Friend, and who are unwilling to accept Him in any other way. Our Lord’s primary obedience was to the will of His Father, not to the needs of people— the saving of people was the natural outcome of His obedience to the Father. If I am devoted solely to the cause of humanity, I will soon be exhausted and come to the point where my love will waver and stumble. But if I love Jesus Christ personally and passionately, I can serve humanity, even though people may treat me like a "doormat." The secret of a disciple’s life is devotion to Jesus Christ, and the characteristic of that life is its seeming insignificance and its meekness. Yet it is like a grain of wheat that "falls into the ground and dies"— it will spring up and change the entire landscape ( John 12:24 ).
And He speaks. And I listen.
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